Started working with Azure Databricks and trying to construct a DR design.
What I'm confused about is the whereabouts of the DB Control Plane. We have established a workspace in UK South, but is our Control Plane for this Data Plane also in UK South? I'm not sure it is having read a couple of posts that it is in UK West - which if it is then can I have a secondary Control Plane in UK South or is this not an option and I'll need to look at a different Azure geography (Europe)? Any experience/knowledge I'd love to hear from you. Many thanks.
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Hi I am trying to create an azure server in china from the united kingdom. All I want to know if this is possible. I have read that you need to create the server from the Azure China Site?
I don't speak chinese which means I have to tanslate every webpage I go onto which is a bit annoying and some text isnt translated.
When starting a trial the first step is to add a phone number and without it you cant progress, but since I dont have a chinese phone number I am unable to get past this. This is why I am asking whether or not it is possible to host a chinese server from te UK.
When Im on the UK/American Azure Site and I need to select the county I am from the information text tells me this
"Choose the primary country or region where you or your organization will use Microsoft Azure. You cannot change this country later. This setting determines the data center closest to you."
Does this mean if I choose United Kingdom I will never be able to host a server in china?
Thanks for any help it is much appreciated
This is why I am asking whether or not it is possible to host a
chinese server from te UK.
No. You can't host a server in China Data Center (DC) from UK using your UK Azure Subscription. In order to make use of China DC so that you can host resources there, you would need to have an Azure Subscription in China. Your regular Azure Subscription does not give you access to that DC. This is same as access to Azure US Government DCs.
Really puzzled why I am not seeing all locations - only 4 - US West, US East, Japan West and Japan East in my trial subscription. Is there any filtering I inadvertently setup?
Any pointers would be really helpful
Shas
I am giving many workshops for Azure and I see this behavior a lot for Azure Passes (also kind of trial accounts) but have not seen this for Azure Trials.
I noticed that I have more location options in the new Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and less in the old management portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com).
Also to consider, not all services are available at all locations. But the standard services like VMs or storage should be available everywhere. You can check via the service overview whether your desired service is available.
I'm trying to start a virtual machine in West Europe region, but for some reason that regions isn't available in the drop down.
I have created Azure Web apps in West Europe, but I can't create a VM there. The only available regions are Central US, South Central US, East Asia, SouthEasts Asia and West Japan.
My subscription is Pay-as-you-Go (if that makes any difference).
Any ideas ?
Thanks
I opened a ticket earlier today and seems they are having a capacity or other sort of issue. New subscriptions have West Europe disabled. With a ticket you can ask Microsoft to enable it for you. They will ask you how many VMs (and which types) you expect to provision. They expect processing the form can take up to two days. So far the unlimited cloud capacity on demand
You have to open a billing support ticket to have them enable the region(s) for you.
When creating a VM on azure portal, the location option does not list South Brazil, but the Azure pricing page lists South Brazil prices.
I am trying to create a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter VM.
Is South Brazil available? What do I have to do to enable this location?
Thank you.
The default Regions that are available to a subscription are based on availability of resources at the time and whether the Region is 'generally available'; for example, originally, Brazil South was only available to Paid Subscriptions (e.g. not trial, BizSpark, MSDN credits etc).
If there is a Region that is missing from your Subscription, you can contact Billing Support (which is included free with your subscription), and open a ticket requesting access to that Region.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/options/
Or, you can do so through the Azure Portal.
I have performed this myself, as my two Subscriptions (BizSpark, MSDN) were both created in Brazil, but neither included access to the Brazil South Region.
Billing Support managed the process of gaining access to Brazil South for my Subscriptions - they will open an internal ticket with Capacity Planning, who will perform the actual resolution. The process is zero cost.
Response time in my case was less than one hour from requesting assistance from Billing Support, to having the ticket created with Capacity Planning. The Capacity Planning department subsequently enabled Brazil South for my subscriptions within one business day.
NOTE: It should be borne in mind that not all services are available in all Regions; for example products that are in beta such as Premium Storage, the latest Tiers of Virtual Machines, etc, are restricted to one or two Regions before they become generally available. Brazil South is one of the newer Regions, and therefore is slightly behind in terms of services that are available.
These are the locations that I have available for Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter (I added the bold to Brazil South):
LOCATIONS
East Asia;Southeast Asia;Australia East;Australia Southeast;Brazil South;North Europe;West Europe;Japan East;Japan West;Central US;East US;East US 2;North Central US;South Central US;West US
The option to choose Brazil South occurs on the 4th page of the VM setup, assuming you choose Create from a Gallery Image. Steps are outlined below:
From Portal Homepage, Click NEW (Bottom Right)
Choose > Compute > Virtual Machine > From Gallery
note: Brazil South may also be available in the Quick Create option as well as from Gallery, but Gallery gives more options for the setup.
From Page One Choose the Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Image (top of the list for me). Click the next arrow bottom right.
From Page 2, enter size, name, Tier, and Administrative user data, click next arrow bottom right.
From Page 3, you can find the Regions in the dropdown list titled "REGION/AFFINITY GROUP/VIRTUAL NETWORK". Choose Brazil South (it is available for me).
David
I am deploying applications to the 6 regions supported by Microsoft Azure, and would like to have a little bit more information about where the files are being served from, as I am trying to correlate HTTP download times from various locations around the world with the location of where they're being served.
Unfortunately, when I put the host IP addresses through any of the common Geolocation tools, they either are unresolvable or all resolve to the center of the North America!
I can understand why MS don't want to be too explicit on where http traffic originates from, but an approximate location would be useful - is this possible?
You can find your answer on the Windows Azure Trust Center site: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/trust-center/privacy/
Asia: East (Hong Kong) and Southeast (Singapore)
Europe: North (Ireland) and West (Netherlands)
United States: North Central (Illinois), South Central (Texas), East (Virginia), and West (California)
It that close enough?
By the way, technically there are three regions (United States, Asia and Europe). Each Data Center within the same region is called a Sub-Region. The two new data centers in the Unites States were announced on April 5th.
It's actually very easy to get the approximate location based on the IP. Simply compare the IP of your hosted service (resolve yourapp.cloudapp.net) with the official Windows Azure Datacenter IP Ranges.
Latest Blogpost related to the ip-ranges: http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/08/14/windows-azure-datacenter-ip-ranges.aspx as the other ms-link seems to be dead...